Last night some deadbeat loser killed more than 50 people in a gay club in Orlando, Florida. It is the largest shooting massacre in the U.S. since Wounded Knee. According to his ex-wife the man, one Omar Mateen, used to beat her and was not religious.

Earlier Mateen took pictures of himself and posted those on Myspace. The pics are selfies and mostly not remarkable but in TWO of them he wears shirts with New York Police Department emblems on them.

This tells us what?

The guy was a follower of the NYPD?

He had pledged allegiance to the NYPD?

The NYPD radicalized him and taught him to hate gays?

There is currently a lot of speculation but no evidence that the guy was also a fan of the Islamic State (ISIS) death cult. None of the pictures he posted points into that direction, but it still may be the case.

But what does that really tell us?

Was his emotional relation to ISIS as strong as his emotional relation to the NYPD?

Do such assumed allegiances tell us anything at all?

Comment: Mateen, 29, is apparently a US citizen born to Afghan parents. This is what an FBI official initially had to say: "We do have suggestions that that individual may have leanings towards that particular ideology [extremism]. But right now we can't say definitively so we're still running everything around." Now, the media are saying that Mateen made a call to 911 prior to the attacks where he pledged allegiance to ISIS. Right...

This guy had been on the FBI's radar for 5 years. 'Anonymous officials' are saying there is no immediate evidence proving any connection between the shooting and Islamic State or any other foreign extremist organization. Senator Bill Nelson said this: "I asked the FBI if there was any connection to Islamic radicalism. There appears to be. But they are naturally cautious and waiting throughout to see if if this is [in fact true]." They'd be the ones to know! The FBI is responsible for the vast majority of radicalization and terror plots in the U.S.

Mateen's father had this to say:

Mateen's father, Mir Seddique, believes that this was an act of homophobia and not religious. Mir Seddique told NBC that he had seen his son become angry when two men kissed in front of his son. Seddique told NBC News, "this has nothing to do with religion."

Similarly, as MoA points out in the article, even if he did "pledge allegiance" to ISIS (which is highly dubious), that is meaningless. Any moron can say they like ISIS - that doesn't mean they were not simply bigoted criminals.

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It tells us he was not a devout Muslim, which is a pre-requisite to joining any of these Wahhabi groups currently funded and supported by the occupiers of Palestine and their global lackeys. It tells us he grew up surrounded by political Islam and that he liked the idea of having control over others.

From other sources we find that his father has connections in the Afghanistan and U.S. governments and may be responsible for directing funds and people into and out of the country.

It tells us the story is just beginning to unfold and that the truth is buried in there somewhere.

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.